Position of some Devonian Ostracoda. 299 



quarries and a cove. The first of these quarries is small, 

 and is worked in dark limestones, dipping south-west, veined 

 with calcite and containing Crinoid stems, Serpulcej and 

 Corals. Its back is formed by the fault, behind which shalj 

 beds are to be seen. Crossing the fault at the western edge 

 of this quarry we enter a second and larger quarry, which 

 has been excavated in grey, thick-bedded, and very lenticular 

 limestones, also dipping south-west. Below these come some 

 alternating beds of thin limestones and shales, overlying the 

 shales mentioned before, and the highest of which forms the 

 north-east slope of the quarry. As the workmen have not 

 troubled to work below this, it is only towards the front of the 

 quarry that the succession of these alternating beds is exposed. 

 Their edges, bent upwards and ultimately crumpled by 

 the great fault before referred to, show nine or ten thin lime- 

 stone bands, giving altogether a thickness of about 5 feet. 

 It is from the upper surface of one of the most central of 

 these bands that the Ostracods were obtained, and I have not 

 found them in any of the other beds. In this band, how- 

 ever, they occur in crowds, and they are accompanied more 

 rarely by a minute spiral Vermetus (?) with lamellar rings, and 

 by a small Brachiopod [Athyris concentrica, Buch). Both the 

 interiors and the exteriors of the valves are exposed, and 

 occasionally the two valves occur united, so it would 

 appear that they were living at the time of the deposition of 

 the strata. The succeeding cove is the one described by 

 Mr. Champernowne, in which he found Calceola *. 



The Beyrichia which Professor Rupert Jones will describe 

 in another communication was found by Mr. T. Roberts, 

 Mr. Solly, and other members of Professor T. M'Kenny 

 Hughes's Cambridge party during their visit to Torquay last 

 Easter, in the red beds of the " New Cut '■* or Lincombe-Hill 

 Drive, from which Mr. Champernowne obtained his Homalo- 

 notus some years ago f. These beds lie high up on the slope 

 of the Ilsham valley, some hundred yards to the north of 

 Meadfoot Bay. They are considered by Professor Hughes 

 to be the same as, or, more probably, slightly lower than, the 

 Fleurodictyum-heds of Kilmorie, and he has obtained Pleura- 

 dictyum and other fossils from beds in their immediate neigh- 

 bourhood. 



• Loc. cit. p. 549. 



t See Geol. Mag. 1881, pp. 487-491, pi. xiii., and 1882, pp. 157, 158, 

 pi. iv. fig. 3. 



